Past Forward: French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments There are far too many who inspired and encouraged me along the way for me to thank them all. However, several deserve special attention. I would like to thank everyone at Southern Illinois University Press, particularly Kathleen Kageff, Karl Kageff, and Barb Martin, for the attentive handling of this project from beginning to end. Bridget Brown deserves special thanks because without her very efficient work, this book might never have been. Mary Lou Kowaleski deserves much praise for dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s and counteracting all of my other bad habits. I am deeply indebted to Southern Methodist University for supporting this project financially and for providing me a room of my own in which to work and intelligent and engaging colleagues and students with whom to share ideas. Among my colleagues , I thank Bill Beauchamp for reading and re-reading various drafts of the manuscript, Gordon Birrell for his unwavering support, and Marlies Gaëttens for helping me keep everything in balance. I would be remiss in not thanking Rosemary Sanchez for lighting candles and saying prayers and Debbie Garland for her calm reassurance. And lastly, I thank Brian for contributions too numerous to list and Evan and Emma for yielding precious time and never (almost never) complaining. IX 2VFKHUZLW])URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 2VFKHUZLW])URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 P A S T F O R W A R D 2VFKHUZLW])URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 2VFKHUZLW])URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 ...